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under the obama administration, if african-americans are doing worse under his administration more than the previous four administrations? >> guest: unemployment among blacks is 16%. whites are doing marginally better, blacks are doing significantly worse. the question is how much of that do we ascribe to the president? of course there are other market forces and factors, i suppose, but i think that is the good question to put to the president. i should say at the same time nobody wants more than i do to see president obama succeed. it is very important to the black community that he have a successful presidency and i think to some extent that is wide blacks have not been disposed to be harshly critical of him because of things we think he should have done but has not done. i think the political space he operates in is a very small on these kinds of issues. and i don't know if he is willing to push out that space to do more things but it is a question he would have to answer but objectively i don't think there's any question that if one uses employment as the measure blacks have done wo
under the obama administration, if african-americans are doing worse under his administration more than the previous four administrations? >> guest: unemployment among blacks is 16%. whites are doing marginally better, blacks are doing significantly worse. the question is how much of that do we ascribe to the president? of course there are other market forces and factors, i suppose, but i think that is the good question to put to the president. i should say at the same time nobody wants...
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president obama took some pains to try to block president aristide's returned to his country from south africa. that is a violation of the international covenant on civil and political rights which the united states is a part of. we cannot block people from leaving the country nor can you block them from returning to their own country. and so if not the letter certainly the president violated the spirit of our legal binding obligation under that international human rights treaty. >> host: where is former president aristide right now? >> guest: he is in haiti. >> host: where is a living? the living? >> guest: he is back in his home and he is operating the school that he operated before so he is doing service work. >> host: dessi of security? >> guest: i don't know. i don't know if he has what would be warranted. i just don't know. while we talk to them -- we can't talk to them about things like that on the phone. and so we don't touch on that. but we are in touch. >> host: from "quitting america" the departure of a black man from his native land you write that america is a democracy beca
president obama took some pains to try to block president aristide's returned to his country from south africa. that is a violation of the international covenant on civil and political rights which the united states is a part of. we cannot block people from leaving the country nor can you block them from returning to their own country. and so if not the letter certainly the president violated the spirit of our legal binding obligation under that international human rights treaty. >> host:...
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he said president obama's administration is engaging the international community for such a measure. this is about 45 minutes. >> thank you all for joining us this morning. thank you for joining us. i am the senior fellow and we are very pleased to welcome frank rose for space and defense policy. now, for those of you who don't know us well, we are a global think tank. we have our mothership in london, and also in other places. the dialogues of the middle east and other dialogues of the asia pacific have been recorded. we also publish survival, international affairs, the 2013 addition of which was once your last week. and some of which are on display. this is a critical part of our network. >> we are here today to hear from mr. frank. frank is responsible for defense and military space policy. prior to joining the department in 2009, he held very strict positions in the u.s. house of representatives, including the committee on intelligence and secretary of defense. he received his m.a. in war studies. prior to joining the institute, i can tell you one thing about him. he takes diplom
he said president obama's administration is engaging the international community for such a measure. this is about 45 minutes. >> thank you all for joining us this morning. thank you for joining us. i am the senior fellow and we are very pleased to welcome frank rose for space and defense policy. now, for those of you who don't know us well, we are a global think tank. we have our mothership in london, and also in other places. the dialogues of the middle east and other dialogues of the...
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president obama took some pains to try to block their misdeeds country from south africa that is the violation of the covenant of civil-rights of which the united states is a party you cannot block people from leaving the country or from returning to their country and. so certainly we violate the spirit of a legal and binding obligation under that human-rights treaty. >> host: where is former president aristide now? >> guest: he is in haiti haiti, he is back in his home and is operating the school he operated before but he is doing service work >> host: does he have security? >> guest: i don't know. i don't know what would be warranted. i just don't know. we talk to him by cannot talk about things like that on the phone. we don't touch on that. >> host: from the departure of a black man you right america is a democracy because america says it is a democracy america is godly and good and perfect because america says it is godly and good and perfect. these truths must be a truce because america's voice is the only voice america hears >> guest: that is very true particularly with these
president obama took some pains to try to block their misdeeds country from south africa that is the violation of the covenant of civil-rights of which the united states is a party you cannot block people from leaving the country or from returning to their country and. so certainly we violate the spirit of a legal and binding obligation under that human-rights treaty. >> host: where is former president aristide now? >> guest: he is in haiti haiti, he is back in his home and is...
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under the obama administration, why is it that african-americans are doing worse under his administration more than the, like i say, last, previous four administrations? thank you. >> guest: well, the unemployment among blacks is now 16-plus percent. and so, um, whites are doing marginally better. blacks are doing significantly worse. the question is how much of that do we ascribe to the president? of course, there are other market forces and factors, i suppose, but i think that's a good question to put to the president. i should say at the same time that nobody wants more than i do to see president obama succeed, succeed. it is very important to the black community. that he have a successful president, presidency. and i think to some extent that's why blacks have not been disposed to be harshly critical of him because of things we might think he should have done but has not done. i think the political space he operates in is very small on these kinds of issues, um, and i don't know if he is willing to push out that space to do more things, but i think it is a question he would have to an
under the obama administration, why is it that african-americans are doing worse under his administration more than the, like i say, last, previous four administrations? thank you. >> guest: well, the unemployment among blacks is now 16-plus percent. and so, um, whites are doing marginally better. blacks are doing significantly worse. the question is how much of that do we ascribe to the president? of course, there are other market forces and factors, i suppose, but i think that's a good...
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under the obama administration, why is it that african-americans are doing worse under his administration more than the, like i say, last, previous four administrations? thank you. >> guest: well, the unemployment among blacks is now 16-plus percent. and so, um, whites are doing marginally better. blacks are doing significantly worse. the question is how much of that do we ascribe to the president? of course, there are other market forces and factors, i suppose, but i think that's a good question to put to the president. i should say at the same time that nobody wants more than i do to see president obama succeed, succeed. it is very important to the black community. that he have a successful president, presidency. and i think to some extent that's why blacks have not been disposed to be harshly critical of him because of things we might think he should have done but has not done. i think the political space he operates in is very small on these kinds of issues, um, and i don't know if he is willing to push out that space to do more things, but i think it is a question he would have to an
under the obama administration, why is it that african-americans are doing worse under his administration more than the, like i say, last, previous four administrations? thank you. >> guest: well, the unemployment among blacks is now 16-plus percent. and so, um, whites are doing marginally better. blacks are doing significantly worse. the question is how much of that do we ascribe to the president? of course, there are other market forces and factors, i suppose, but i think that's a good...
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under the obama administration, why is it that african-americans are doing worse under his administration more than the, like i say, last, previous four administrations? thank you. >> guest: well, the unemployment among blacks is now 16-plus percent. and so, um, whites are doing marginally better. blacks are doing significantly worse. the question is how much of that do we ascribe to the president? of course, there are other market forces and factors, i suppose, but i think that's a good question to put to the president. i should say at the same time that nobody wants more than i do to see president obama succeed, succeed. it is very important to the black community. that he have a successful president, presidency. and i think to some extent that's why blacks have not been disposed to be harshly critical of him because of things we might think he should have done but has not done. i think the political space he operates in is very small on these kinds of issues, um, and i don't know if he is willing to push out that space to do more things, but i think it is a question he would have to an
under the obama administration, why is it that african-americans are doing worse under his administration more than the, like i say, last, previous four administrations? thank you. >> guest: well, the unemployment among blacks is now 16-plus percent. and so, um, whites are doing marginally better. blacks are doing significantly worse. the question is how much of that do we ascribe to the president? of course, there are other market forces and factors, i suppose, but i think that's a good...
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the administration has, now, of course, embraced elections in haiti that banned the largest political party from participating. that is -- [inaudible] we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. and president obama took some pains to try to block the president's return to his country from south africa. that is a violation of the international covenant on civil and political rights, which the united states is a party. .. >>. >> guest: that is very true am in a particular human rights. we have these wonderful instruments that come on with the founding of the united nations after 1945 spearheaded in many ways with the universal declaration of human rights and one that followed that much with the education of the developing world with colonialism beyond discrimination. because the united states won the war it largely had a bigger steel of on the link which with civil and political rights a big similarity there but it is important to realize that the same time across the world had ratified by a important conventions that have not ratified to protect the interests of children to protect women and
the administration has, now, of course, embraced elections in haiti that banned the largest political party from participating. that is -- [inaudible] we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. and president obama took some pains to try to block the president's return to his country from south africa. that is a violation of the international covenant on civil and political rights, which the united states is a party. .. >>. >> guest: that is very true am in a particular human rights. we...